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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Measurements Overview</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">With <b class="uiTerm">Measurements</b>, you can easily measure distances, lengths, angles, volumes, and areas. Use these measurements either as a reference, or as associative measurements for building relationships.  Your models update as you make changes, and are therefore more robust.  Using the associative measures is faster than cutting and pasting values. Also, you can create multiple measurements or find information on multiple measurements quickly. 
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      <p class="para_topic">When you enter a measurement function, the software displays multiple measurement options, allowing you to select the exact distance, angle, or volume that you want to measure. When you finish selecting parameters, the software displays the measurement result.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Each function provides a <b class="uiTerm">Keep Measure</b><img align="bottom" src="graphics/keep_measure.gif" border="0"> option, allowing you to save the results of each measurement process as expressions that can be referenced by other features. Once you save a measurement, NX allows you to stay in the measurement dialog and continue to create multiple measurements.  
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      <p class="para_topic">You also have access to a full listing of measurement values using the Information icon.    <img align="bottom" src="graphics/information_msr.gif" border="0"></p>
      <p class="para_topic">With each measurement option there is also the capability to display a temporary annotation dimension with each measurement.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">To enable the display of the annotation, press the <b class="uiTerm">Display Annotation</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/display_annotat.gif" border="0">option in any measurement dialog.  With this option, NX creates a measurement annotation each time you complete a measurement. While you are in the measurement dialog, you can reposition the dimension and text for the annotation by clicking on the green drag handles in the graphics area and moving them to a new location.  The measurement annotation is persistent, and you can clear it from the screen by either a <b class="uiTerm">File</b> operation such as <b class="uiTerm">Save</b>, <b class="uiTerm">New</b> or<b class="uiTerm"> Close</b>, by an undo operation, or by pressing<b class="uiTerm"> F5</b> (View Refresh).  
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      <p class="para_topic">The following are the various measurement options available:</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Measurement</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/ana_meas_dist_ov.html');return(false);">Distance</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b> &rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Distance</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/ana_meas_ang_ov.html');return(false);">Angle</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b> &rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Angle</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Arc Length</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm"> Face Properties</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Face Properties (Area)</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Mass Properties (Volume)</b></p>
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      <p class="para_division">Decline a measurement by pressing <img align="bottom" src="graphics/cancel.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Cancel</b>.
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